单词 | spine of the back |
释义 | > as lemmasspine of the back a. The spinal or vertebral column in man and vertebrates; the backbone. Also spine of the back; now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > spine > [noun] ridgeeOE ridge boneOE backbonea1300 chinec1300 rigbonec1400 spinac1400 spinec1400 spine-bonec1400 chine-bone?1533 vertebre1578 vertebre1623 vertebrasa1632 rachis1693 vertebres1696 vertebra1791 vertebral column1828 spinal column1866 (a) 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 973 Vnder the name of the Spine we comprehend all that which is extended from the first Racke-bone of the Necke vnto the Coccyx or Rumpe.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 180 So cannot other animals lye upon their backs; though the spine lye parallell with the Horizon, yet will their legs incline, and lye at angles unto it. View more context for this quotation1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B5 Amongst Fishes..The Psettaceous, or plain and spinose, have a spine that seemeth to be divided in the midd'st.1794 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 7 Many a neighb'ring squire..Contusion hazarding of neck or spine.1827 N. Arnott Elements Physics I. 223 The head rests on the elastic column of the spine.1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 27 The spine, most commonly, is continued into a tail.1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. i. 9 The horses stand..with their spines in a straight line.(b)1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 87 From the head, it..is extended through the spine of the back.1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 272 Having suspended some frogs..by means of metallic hooks fixed in the spines of their backs.c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 358 Of curis of woundis of þe spine ouþir spondilium. < as lemmas |
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